Priming the Pump

Thoughts to Ponder:

When I was a young boy my family lived out in the country in an old farm house. We had electricity and running water but the water came from a well that sat 30 yards from the house out in the field. My job as the oldest in the family was to prime the pump when it was needed. Every once in a while the pump would stop and water wouldn’t flow into the house. It could be in the middle of the day, at night, early in the morning, or just whenever it stopped. It seemed to me that it was at night more than any other time. Then I would have to bundle up, tread out to the pump house and go through all the activities of priming the pump so we could have water. Without this process we had no water available in the house. But as soon as it was primed the water would start flowing once again.

Likewise there are times in our spiritual lives where we need to have our pump primed. It may have stopped because of fatigue, or lack of use, or for some reason it just stopped. At those times we need to reconnect with God and get the flow of the spirit moving once again. In some ways the catalyst conference is a pump priming experience where we can come collectively and receive a boost spiritually. Maybe your pump has stopped, or your water isn’t flowing as freely as it used to. As you press into God this weekend look at it as an opportunity to get back into the flow of the Spirit and receive a fresh touch from God. Let this time that we have set aside become a priming of your spiritual pump once again.

I am looking forward to this conference. We have entitled the entire series this weekend “Supernatural”. On Friday night we will talk about “Supernatural Encounter”. On Saturday at 6 pm we will be speaking on “Supernatural Communication”. Then Sunday morning first service we will be sharing on “Supernatural Lifestyle” and then Sunday second service the message is entitled “Supernatural Testimony”. Please try to make all of the services if possible. Each service is building on the one previous and they will all be different. Let us press into God and see the power of the Spirit released so that we can all say it was a “Supernatural” weekend.

Action Items:

1. Prepare your heart for the conference opener at 7pm tonight.
2. Read Philippians 3:12-16.
3. Pray that God will allow a mighty move of His Holy Spirit this weekend.

Encouragement from the Word:

2 Corinthians 3:16-18—Whenever, though, they turn to face God as Moses did, God removes the veil and there they are—face-to-face! They suddenly recognize that God is a living, personal presence, not a piece of chiseled stone. And when God is personally present, a living Spirit, that old, constricting legislation is recognized as obsolete. We’re free of it! All of us! Nothing between us and God, our faces shining with the brightness of his face. And so we are transfigured much like the Messiah, our lives gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters our lives and we become like him.